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The Media Library contains all published media in one convenient place for visitors to download and view. This article will explain how to assign media to categories and subcategories so they can be grouped together and found easily.
Create a Media Library category
- Go to "Pages"
- Hover over the right side of "Media Library" and click "Edit".
- In the Category Manager, click on the blue "Add Category" button.
- Enter the title of the first Category (which will appear on the Media Library page), and assign a tag. Continue clicking "Add Category" as needed.
- To create a subcategory, click the arrow button on the left side to expand the menu
- Click the blue "Add subcategory" button and enter the subcategory title and a corresponding tag.
- When finished creating all categories and subcategories, click "Save".
- Click on "Asset Manager" on the left column.
- Begin categorizing by assigning tags to images by clicking the green "+" button and selecting from the menu. Tags can also be manually typed into the field.
- To include an image in a subcategory, simply select that tag as well.
- Click "Save".
The Media Library will now display the categories and subcategories.
Directly link to a Media Library category
You can create links to specific Media Library categories by appending /?c= and the specific category to the URL. So if you have a category called 'Infographics', you would add /?c=infographics to the Media Library URL.
Something similar can be done with tagged assets in the media library, but instead of a c you would use a t. If you have a tag called 'example', you would add /?t=example to the Media Library URL.
Pay attention to the t (of tag) in the URL instead of the 'c'.
You can link to multiple tags or categories simultaneously by separating them with a plus, like so: /?t=example+example2.
Finally, you can create a direct link to the video tab in the Media Library by appending /?tab=video to the URL.